Western metaphysics has a counter-tradition treating voice as dangerous and ruinous, not pure presence

Evidence

Dolar’s claim is not that Derrida was wrong that the voice has been privileged in a certain version of metaphysics, but that this has never been the whole story. “There exists a different metaphysical history of voice, where the voice, far from being the safeguard of presence, was considered to be dangerous, threatening and possibly ruinous.” Tellingly, Dolar’s alternative history of metaphysics goes via the treatment of music. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1184

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to Fisher’s ongoing Lacanian themes of the voice as object, the extimate, and ‘the voice of the Father’ as Law - resonates with ch14 and ch28 on Highsmith and puppetry. — connects to: Western metaphysics also treated the voice as threatening, not only as presence — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1184
• ADDENDUM: Connects to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ theme of Plato worrying that new music unsettles social conventions - an echo of sumptuary/moral-panic arguments applied to musical form.